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Confirmation of Gerald Ford as Vice President 28 Nov 2010 | 05:16 am
Nixon wasn’t having much luck by 1973. Watergate was getting serious, the press was getting sniffy, and his jowls were stubbly as ever. Suddenly, unrelated to any of this, his Vice President (and go-t...
The Articles of Confederation 16 Nov 2010 | 01:15 am
Everybody hated this thing. While observing that it was “too weak” is an oversimplification, the variety of reasons why people were so miserable in the 1780s have everything to do with this document (...
Statehood of North Dakota 5 Nov 2010 | 04:14 pm
Happy birthday, North Dakota! Boy, do I have a soft spot for this slugger. I used to drive through it each summer between college and home, and it was great (for predictable reasons). So back in the ...
Specifications for an Improvement in Electric Lamps 1 Nov 2010 | 03:26 pm
America’s rush of scientific innovation at the end of the 19th century sparked the world as we know it today. Once Sprengel solved the removing of air from a glass bulb, Thomas Edison could take what ...
Eli Whitney’s Patent for the Cotton Gin 27 Oct 2010 | 12:42 am
As the Founders saw it, the “peculiar institution” of slavery couldn’t survive in the new Enlightenment; It would, along with the boiling need for a war, die out naturally. But when a mechanic called ...
Lee’s Demand for John Brown’s Surrender 19 Oct 2010 | 02:48 am
Robert E. Lee was bored. In the years leading up to 1861, Lee was still a Colonel for the (still whole) United States. He’d taken a bunch of vacation from his stints with Army training and field comma...
Letter from the King Survey to A.A. Humphreys 11 Oct 2010 | 01:41 pm
Clarence King, before he led the brand-new Geological Survey, was tasked with something very tough: To survey the rocks and mountains along the 40th parallel, from the Rockies to the Sierra Nevada. Be...
Pigeon Message from Capt. Whittlesey to the 308th 4 Oct 2010 | 11:49 pm
Captain Charles Whittlesey was having a terrible October 4th. Not only were he and his men tasked with engaging the deeply entrenched Germans at Argonne, but by just the 2nd day of their undermanned e...
Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School 23 Sep 2010 | 01:33 pm
If you wanted to be a raving bigot in the 1950s, only two things stood in your way: your moral conscience (ha ha), and television. Arkansas governor Orval Faubus didn’t count on the latter when he, in...
Constitution Day 17 Sep 2010 | 04:17 pm
223 years ago, on this day, this whole experiment began. What they signed is the greatest testament to what the better angels of our nature are capable of. When our cynicism takes a back seat to opti...
